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Treatment of Offenders Act (Northern Ireland) 1968, PART III is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 18 August 2017. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.

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PART IIIN.I.GENERAL

32Financial provisions.N.I.

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(1)The Secretary of State may make rules for prescribing the procedure to be followed and the forms to be used for the purposes of proceedings under or in consequence of this Act.

(2)Rules made under paragraph (1) shall be subject to [F3negative resolution].]

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“remand home” has the same meaning as in the Children and Young Persons Act (Northern Ireland) 1950 [1950 c.5] F5;

“sentence” does not include a committal for default or the fixing of a term to be served in the event of default, or a committal or attachment for contempt of court;

“suspended sentence or order for detention” means a sentence or order for detention to which an order under section 18(1)[F6 or (1A)] relates;

“young offenders centre” has the meaning assigned to it by section 2( a).

(2)For the purposes of any reference in [F7 the Prison Act and] this Act to a term of imprisonment or to a term of detention in a young offenders centre, consecutive terms or terms which are wholly or partly concurrent shall be treated as a single term[F8 if—

(a)the sentences were passed on the same occasion; or

(b)where they were passed on different occasions, the person has not been released under Chapter 4 of Part 2 of the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 at any time during the period beginning with the first and ending with the last of those occasions.]

(3)Where the age of any person at any time is material for the purposes of any provision of this Act, his age at the material time shall be deemed to be or to have been that which appears to the court after considering any available evidence to be or to have been his age at that time.

(4)For the purposes of any provisions of this Act referring to a person who is serving or has served a sentence of any description, the expression “sentence” includes—

(a)in any case, a sentence of that description passed by a court in the British Islands; and

(b)in the case of imprisonment, a sentence passed by a court-martial [F9 or a Standing Civilian Court established under the Armed Forces Act 1976 [1976 c.52] ] on a person found guilty of a civil offence (within the meaning of the Army Act 1955 [1955 c.18] , the Air Force Act 1955 [1955 c.19] or the Naval Dicipline Act 1957 [1957 c.53] ).

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34Meaning of “imprisonment” in certain other Acts.N.I.

For the purpose of all enactments and instruments made under enactments relating to disqualification for loss of office of persons sentenced to imprisonment an order for detention in a young offenders centre shall be deemed to be a sentence of imprisonment.

36Short title and commencement.N.I.

(1)This Act may be cited as the Treatment of Offenders Act (Northern Ireland)1968.

(2)This section shall come into operation on the passing of this Act.

(3)F10 The provisions of this Act, other than this section, shall come into operation on such day or days as may be appointed by order made by the Minister.

(4)Where an order is made under subsection (3) with respect to any provision of this Act, any reference in that provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as a reference to the time at which that provision comes into operation.

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